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When I check in my ASUS router or preform a network scan with an app on my iPhone or imac the laser printer (connected to the router via ethernet) does not appear. How do I find its address? Thank you :-)
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Your version of the printer doesn't have onboard network hardware. As a result, it will not have an IP you can locate on the EWS. It may come up locally over USB like the HP lasers but it isn't remotely accessible.
Check your router if you have the USB cable hooked up that way. If you don't see it, the printer is being shared as a network shared device on a homegroup and you will need to be in said homegroup to use the printer. It will not be available if the computer sharing it is turned off as well. If you need it on your LAN there's external print servers designed for this but they generally don't provide EWS access which is needed for some of these to get around the toner low print stop configuration so this has its own subset of problems.
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The OP just mentioned it's a D model. That means it just has a duplexer and uses USB exclusively.
It may be a DN but Brother is known to be stingy about including Ethernet, so you need a DN to get it. Sometimes they don't include it on W printers as well, but that's only really a problem on really cheap ones.
Since Brother is known to do this, I am making the assumption they bought a base model thinking it would include Ethernet but didn't realize it until after the fact.
Hi @nick ,
Thanks for that.
I was just going on the fact that the manual stated "HL‑L2300D" besides D, W, DN and DW for the other models covered by the same manual and the OP stated that it is connected to the router via Ethernet, that's all.
Cheers
If the OP corrects the post, I'll change my response.
You know what, I purchased this printer a month or so ago, yes, this is connected via USB. Duh! My last printer was connected to the router. Feeling somewhat foolish now. ;-) Thanks.
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You can go into the admin areas of your router to see the devices that are connected. There you will see the IP address of each device.
The problem is, if you can't set the IP address manually on the device, its IP address is subject to change. It doesn't change often, but it can change, because it is not fixed.
The current IP address may allow you to find it from your iPhone or iMAC, which then may allow you to get other information about it, thereby allowing you to establish a connection to it from your iPhone and iMac.
I have a Canon Selphy; I can print to it either via direct wireless or via the router. But I have to set the printer one way or the other; I can't leave it in both modes at the same time. If your printer allows you to leave it in both modes at the same time, then you could likely print to it via direct wireless.
The way my Selphy does direct wireless is, it sets up the printer as a wifi hotspot; I then attach to that hotspot from my iPhone, allowing me to print to it from my iPhone. Whenever I connect to the printer in that way, it drops whatever other wifi connection it has established, which means that I don't have wifi calling or wifi data whenever my iPhone is connected to the printer.
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